Jill Ryan Three female students are suing Yale University and nine off-campus fraternities there, arguing the fraternities create a hostile environment for women and that Yale is “turning a blind eye” to sexual misconduct. Anna McNeil, one of the plaintiffs, says she was repeatedly groped at fraternity parties during her first year at Yale. “I’ve […]

Three Women Sue to Integrate Yale’s Fraternities ANNA BLECH The day before Christine Blasey Ford testified in Congress that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh ’87 LAW ’90 had attempted to rape her when he was in high school, Ry Walker ’20 climbed onto the Women’s Table in front of hundreds of her classmates. As water […]

By Dorothy Atkins Law360 (February 15, 2019, 7:18 PM EST) — A Ninth Circuit panel appeared skeptical Friday of Oracle Inc.’s appeal of a decision to send an ex-worker’s putative class action over sales commission pay to arbitration, with one judge calling the company’s anti-arbitration stance ironic and a “man bites dog” situation. During a […]

Interview with Anna McNeil, BR ’20, Ry Walker, SY ’20, Ellie Singer, BF ’21, and David Tracey, TC ’08 The Yale Herald YH: How long have you been working on this case, and what was the process of becoming a plaintiff with [discrimination attorneys] Sanford Heisler? Why Sanford Heisler specifically? AM: We had known that […]

Class-action suit seeks gender integration By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff (NEWSER) – Three women who say they were groped at frat parties during their first semesters at Yale are suing for major changes to the Greek system—including integration. Anna McNeil, 20, Eliana Singer, 19, and Ry Walker, 20, have filed a class-action suit against Yale […]

ASHA PRIHAR & AUDREY STEINKAMP STAFF REPORTERS Three female students sued Yale and nine fraternities for alleged gender discrimination and for fostering a sexually hostile environment, following years of campus activism, conversations with administrators and other legal action. The three students — Anna McNeil ’20, Ry Walker ’20 and Ellie Singer ’21 — filed the […]

By Lila MacLellan Three students at Yale University laid the groundwork yesterday (Feb. 12) for what could become a historic reckoning on campus. In a class-action lawsuit, they sued the school and nine of its all-male fraternities for discrimination based on gender, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The lawsuit, brought by students Ky Walker, Anna […]

Keka Araujo, Special to The Informer via DiversityInc Three female undergraduate students at Yale University have filed a class-action lawsuit against the university and nine of its all-male fraternal organizations in hopes of requiring fraternities to admit women as members to change the culture of sexual harassment. Anna McNeil, Ry Walker and Eliana Singer believe […]

A lawsuit alleging rampant sexual misconduct among Yale’s Greek chapters has demanded they admit women. By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf A trio of Yale University students is suing the institution and nine of its fraternities, demanding that its Greek system be reformed and women be integrated into the all-male groups to fix a “sexually hostile” environment. Legal […]

By DAVIS DUNAVIN Three women who attend Yale University have brought a lawsuit to try to open the school’s fraternities to women. The students are suing the university and nine of its all-male fraternities. They say they tried to rush the fraternities and were rejected solely on the basis of their gender. They say women […]